78 RPM record GRINDING noises is removed (with Goldwave) so that we can hear what went onto the record instead of nearly a century of misuse. Dates, if given are a guess.


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Artist/Composer: Oscar Aleman
Keywords: Popular; 1930s; 78rpm

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: vilstef - - July 11, 2010
Subject: Oscar Aleman-great but little known
He's a contemporary of Django Reinhardt, and he performed and recorded in Paris in Django's time frame of the late 30s. I've heard they were good friends, but the documentation is sparse. Oscar was band leader for Josephine Baker, but of 3 recent bios of Baker, he only gets a passing mention of one paragraph. The song on this recording is Gershwin's I've Got Rhythm and Oscar plays it brilliantly. I've not heard a recording by him which I didn't enjoy.